Category: Games
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The Deleted Scenes of Tomb Raider
In 2015 I wrote for Trusted Reviews about the development of the 2014 reboot of Tomb Raider by Crystal Dynamics, focusing on content that was cut from the game before release and alternate directions the team pitched. The article focused on two different pitches that Crystal Dynamics proposed, the first an unnamed survival horror version…
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Thief 4: Dagger of Ways…
A year ago I heard a developer mention a modern day reboot of Thief. Stunned I hadn’t heard of it already, I asked when it was coming out. Never, he said – it was cancelled almost ten years ago. “When we pitched to Eidos, the feedback was ‘no supernatural stuff’,” my secret source told me. “We were going…
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The Deleted Scenes of Half-Life 2
In 2012 I was commissioned by RockPaperShotgun to research and write about the development of Half-Life 2, focusing on the content that was cut from the game during development. I also played restored versions of that content using the Missing Information mod for Half-Life 2. I thumb open my copy of Raising The Bar and take…
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Frank Herbert’s Dune is 50
http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02z9bvb.mp3 It’s the 50th anniversary of Frank Herbert’s Dune this year – a seminal science fiction novel which I’ve long admired. Knowing this, BBC Radio 5 Live invited me back on to discuss it. I first got interested in Dune through the game by Cryo Interactive. It was one of those life-shaping experiences which involved…
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Videobrains: Easter Eggs
Hello. I’m Joe Martin, a semi-retired games journalist who writes mainly about why writers should not work for free and stuff that gets cut from games before they’re released. But today I’m here to talk about secret things that developers leave in their games – or what we call Easter Eggs…
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